Showy purchase-bagging

According to the video description, this gentleman is Rajni, who bags purchases at Chennai Silks Sarees. He is a virtuoso in this regard.

Rajnikanth at chennai silks sarees (via Reddit)

• [Hoopy Frood]

  This is super cool, but I wish they didn’t speed up the video at the appropriate points just to make it cooler than it is. The speeding up takes away from the awesomeness.

  • [Daemon]

    You might want to consider watching the people in the background. They’re moving at normal speeds throughout – he really is that awesome.

• [2k]

  My favourite thing about this is that he seems to be a little annoyed at not grabbing the first bag properly, compensating with the no-look, super-fast, inverted-grab spin!

• [psulli]

  I love the dramatic pause with the stamping. I need to add “dramatic pause” to more parts of my life.

• [jmercury]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkETS0MVKuA

  not the best video available, but jason at daily dozen donuts in seattle has seriously mad bagging skills.

• [Coherent]

  I love watching people demonstrate their incidentally gained mad skillz. It reminds me of the absolute best line from the Karate Kid remake: Jackie Chan’s “Everything is Kung Fu.”

• [Donald Petersen]

  Lots of practice gets one to this point. My brother-in-law has some mad tray-spinning skillz dating back 25 years to his busboy days.

  You gotta have fun somehow, otherwise customer service leads to fatalities.

• [Sujai]

  Just to clarify – from the youtube video description, it doesn’t look like Rajni is his name. The video uploader is referring to demi-god/badass south indian megastar Rajnikanth who is already famous on boingboing (http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/27/repost-indias-most-e.html)

• [carter76]

  Wow. What’s Moss like in real life?

• [Kimmo]

  Dude’s smashing it like a virtuoso.

  Wonder if he’s been doing that for 10,000 hours…

• [alllie]

  An example of how capitalism wastes the lives of talented people.

  • [Anonymous]

    Allie, you’d rather he was spinning trash on the streetcorner for spare change?
    At least capitalism gave him a job. Don’t call the thing that puts bread on his family’s table a waste.

  • [Anonymous]

    Oh shush. What he’s doing is expert – as a result of practice and reasonable hand-eye coordination. I respect what he’s doing, and he deserves the praise he’s getting, but there’s nothing in here that says he should have been a pro sportsman or anything else, or that his talents are wasted, any more than a pro cocktail waiter’s.

    And he has what looks like a fairly well-paid job, if not by western then at least by Indian standards.

• [jeligula]

  I did something similar as a courtesy clerk at the Evergreen Thriftway in Everett, WA at 18. I had learned to juggle like a circus performer when I was younger, and when cans would come sliding down the counter, I would grab them and loft them in the air and juggle them, bagging one at a time while still juggling the others. The most I managed at one time was 6, but that was problematic as I had to step away from the counter to manage it, which made it hard to bag them so I usually just kept three at a time going as long as there were cans coming down the counter, grabbing a new one as I bagged one. The customers loved it and I never dropped a single item. The store owner/manager said if I ever did, I was immediately fired, so he left it up to me to continue or not. This was 1987, so I never did become a viral hit. :(

• [starfish and coffee]

  Reminds me of a video posted on BoingBoing over a year ago with chapati bakers doing some insane tricks with the dough.
  Keep this stuff coming! Cream of the crop of viral vids.

  • [Anonymous]

    I read that as “bankers doing some insane tricks with the dough.”

    Making it vanish?

  • [WaylonWillie]

    I bet this chap also has some long-distance throwing in his repertoire.

• [Anonymous]

  Where’s the crazy ice-cream salesman video when you need it?